Parents Get Prison Time For Locking Girl In Closet

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September 27, 1991

SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — A couple who kept their daughter locked in a filthy closet for 10 years were sentenced to prison. Judge Patrick Morris sentenced Sandra Sauceda, 32, to five years in prison and ordered Joseph Sauceda, 34, imprisoned for eight years and four months. Police in October found 12-year-old Rose Sauceda locked in a closet littered with human waste and crawling with insects. Bruised and underfed, the girl allegedly had been allowed out of the closet only once a day. She is now in a foster home.